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Pandemic Performance: Even in a shutdown, their show goes on

YorkU Magazine

LAURA MULLIN (BFA ’94) and Chris Tolley (BFA ’95) were making #PandemicTheatre before it was cool. On March 12, 2020, the York theatre graduates and co-founders of Expect Theatre were recording the latest episode of PlayME, their CBC podcast that turns Canadian plays into audio dramas. They didn’t know that the world was about to implode, instantly shuttering live performance for the foreseeable future, but it turns out they were ready when it did.

The Quarantine Chronicles are like bedtime stories for bizarre times

CBC.CA

Theatre podcast PlayME proudly presents a new series of original plays

Spurred by the pandemic, theatre pivots to audio

CBC Arts

Blame screen fatigue? The old-fashioned art form is finding new relevance

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PlayME is CBC’s Podcast Playlist’s Podcast Pick of the Week

CBC’s Podcast Playlist

Yes! New podcasts to binge!

PlayME featured on CBC’s The National: “Playing with New Podcasts”

CBC - The National

“After years of being dominated by non-fiction, podcasts are turning to fiction to find new audiences…” In this feature, producers Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley and playwright Hannah Moscovitch speak with The National’s Tashana Reid.

Fiction podcasts are giving new form to the old art of the radio drama

CBC News

Producers look to match success of Amazon TV series Homecoming, which began as a podcast